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Wow, great job writing comments everyone! I do need the reassurance that someone is reading, and I really enjoy your thoughts and feedback.

What's new in my life:

I rented out the extra bedroom in my house, which is wonderful because I now have a little bit of company and my rent became extremely cheap. My new housemate's name is Anna and she is also an English teaching assistant. She is from the D.C. area, and is teaching in two schools in Mattersburg, a nearby town. She had arranged for a room in Wiener Neustadt, but apparently the landlord was a very nasty woman and wouldn't allow her to have any guests (her father flew in with her, and she wouldn't even let him stay), she didn't have a kitchen, and no opportunity to get the internet. I told her that guests are no problem for me, and she liked the house so she moved in the very day she first saw it. We also decided that we both really need the internet, so someone from Austria Telekom is coming tomorrow to hook it up. I'm glad she motivated me to do this, because there is a special offer now where it only costs €10 a month for the first six months, and then €20 after that for 400 megabytes of usage, which is plenty for surfing and reading email. Good news for you demanding readers, because I will be able to write much more often.

I encountered the old Herr Bock again the other day. He is the geriatric and senile father of my landlord, and therefore also the former owner of the house. He was standing outside the door one morning when I went out and he asked me what I was doing in his house! I calmly explained that I rent the house from his son. He asked me where I was from (again) and I told him I was an American, to which he responded to by raving about his experiences as a prisoner of war. Just one of the many quirky aspects of living in the Florianigasse...